Medical course description

MedCram Reviews - Infectious disease is the most efficient and enjoyable way to review and deepen your understanding of the most important infectious disease topics.

Most medical review courses follow a simple format: An instructor voiceover with boring presentation slides... perhaps with a quiz at the very end.

MedCram Reviews are different. Here's how it works:

Step 1:Download the exclusive course notes, charts, and medical illustrations that allow you to seamlessly follow along with every second of the videos. Dr. Seheult compiled these notes to use as a backdrop for each medical video, and then bring the notes to life by marking them up extensively: drawing illustrations, highlighting key points, and clarifying important details. With the course notes in hand, you'll be relieved of the need to take notes -- and freed up for maximum retention and understanding.

Step 2: After viewing the medical video(s) corresponding to each page of notes, take a short quiz for instant feedback and reinforcement of key points.

Overall, the style and pace are good. The talks are engaging and easy to listen to. Extremely helpful and copious handout annotations and explanations are provided in the video. The hints, memory helps and sidebar discussions are really terrific, but there could be more of them as this sort of discussion is what one remembers - it is obvious which topics the instructor is most interested in :-). The quizzes aren't very challenging; I suspect they are not meant to be. Some material in the handout is not up to date, but the instructor points this out making corrections on the handout itself during the video version. It would be nice if the handout was dated since ID changes rapidly. Also, some skipped/missing material would be useful; one example: primary syphilis is characterized typically by a single painless chancre (though sometimes hidden and sometimes more than 1) and the dark field microscopy is performed on a scrapeing of the chancre to id the organisms per se. This was not clear in the video.
I would recommend this as a review for a PA student preparing for the PANCE or a PA colleague preparing for the PANRE with the caveat that it probably adequately covers most but definitely not all of the necessary ID topics (it was not created specifically for the NCCPA exams). Missing are a good number of infections encountered primarily in primary care, i.e. family medicine and pediatrics. I might also recommend this as part of a remediation plan for a student who struggled in the ID section of my clinical medicine course, for example, or to students preparing for an inpatient ID or internal medicine rotation for which they are want a quick ID overview. For this it would be particularly useful.
I hope this is helpful.